Welcome to the Multimodelling documentation

Note

This documentation is work in progress and far from finished. New sections will be added in the near future. Whenever questions or feedback is received from end users, we’re trying to update this documentation on the fly. So don’t hesitate to contact us, whenever you run into problems.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Scientific background
  • Multi-model ecosystem
  • State of the art in multi-modelling
    • Introduction
    • Sustainability Transitions in Socio-technical Systems
    • Types of Multi-modelling
    • Reusing Models
    • Challenges in Multi-modelling
    • Final remarks
    • References
  • Requirements for the Multi-Model Infrastructure (MMI)
    • 1. Infrastructure deployment
    • 2. Model description and alignment
    • 3. Model connection and multi-model set-up
    • 4. Model interoperation
    • 5. Model experimentation and output
  • Model Description Template
• End user documentation
• Energy Models
  • Carbon Transition Model (CTM)
  • Energy Potential Scan (EPS)
  • ESSIM (Energy System Simulator)
  • ETM (Energy Transition Model)
  • MOTER (Modeler of Three Energy Regimes)
    • MOTER scope
    • Special feature: time slices
    • Additional documentation
  • OPERA
  • TEACOS
• Example use cases
  • The macro use case - National scenario
  • The meso use case - Industry
  • The micro use case - Business park
• Technical documentation
  • IT architecture
    • General concepts
    • High level architecture
    • Selected software
  • Model adapters
    • General principles
    • Model adapter lifecycle
    • Model adapter interaction
    • Model adapter REST API
  • Orchestrator configuration
• Installation instructions
  • Github repositories
    • Generic repositories
    • Model adapter repositories
    • AIMMS based model adapter template repository
    • Repositories for simple adapters used for initial testing
  • Installing Apache Airflow
• Terminology
  • List of Terms in Thematic
    • Strategic, Tactical, and Operational goals
    • Model, Simulation model, and Calculation model
    • Distributed simulation
    • Source system
    • Abstraction
    • Scope and Scale
    • Granularity and Resolution
    • Model parameters and Model inputs
    • Static data and Dynamic data
    • Multi-model and Multi-modelling
    • Multi-model infrastructure
    • Multi-model constitution
    • Multi-model experimental setup
    • Multi-model workflow
    • Multi-model configuration
    • Workflow task and Model adapter
    • Model orchestrator and Model orchestration
    • Model verification and Model validation
    • Scenario and Scenario space
    • Experiment, Experimentation and Experimental frame
    • Uncertainty analysis
  • List of Terms in Alphabetical order

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page